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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

Started with fresh install of F11. Audio initially worked, however I couldn't do multiple streams. Also the 1/8" audio jacks weren't working. Hoping that pulseaudio had improved since F10, I installed a bunch of pulseaudio packages which killed my sound output. Pulse audio meter was showing sound for gnome events, but without actual output. Attempting to use pulseaudio mixer would crash pulse server within a few seconds. Interestingly, firefox was still using alsa and I could hear audio from it (still no multiple streams), but was NOT showing in the pulseaudio meter. I could set vlc to pulseaudio and it'd show up on the meter, but no sound. Setting vlc output to ALSA produced sound (provided it was the only stream) but would not show up on pulseaudio meter. The gnome-volume-control-applet was set to control pulseaudio so wouldn't actually adjust the sound I was hearing. I then ran 'yum remove pulseaudio' to revert back to alsa only and lost gnome-volume-control with the error "Waiting for sound system to respond.", so no volume control in gnome's notification area. Suddenly I found multiple streams were working under alsa, but gnome seems to still be stuck on pulseaudio. I've spent several hours trying to search and rescue my audio to no avail. This is the first time I'm asking a community for help. How do I get gnome to use alsa instead of pulse (I'm assuming this will also bring back my volume control)?

TLDR:
Gnome using broken/uninstalled pulseaudio instead of the working ALSA. How do I configure gnome to use ALSA.

The problem is that gnome is still trying to use pulseaudio, and I can't find where I can change this setting. Everything else works. I think I can do this with /etc/asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc, but I haven't been able to determine what should go in there.

I have exactly the same issue . I have removed Pulseaudio as it doesnt behave well with skype. But now, gnome cant output any sound. KDE is fine. I am not getting any sound for notifications from Empathy messenger. Any way we can make Gnome talk to ALSA in fedora 11??